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Thursday, April 27, 2000 02:30 p.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000427c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/26_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No male belly-dancers were hypnotized during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Californication? http://www.wmin.ac.uk/media/HRC/ci/calif.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ An After-Death Communications specialist helps pierce the veil of death, speaking with both Princess Di <http://englishrosepress.com/diana.html> and, of course, Chris Farley <http://englishrosepress.com/farley.html>. Future projects are under construction, and oh-so-so-generous investors <http://www.englishrosepress.com/who.html> may wish to help spread the light. For now, Princess Di has graciously agreed to provide a newsletter <http://www.englishrosepress.com/news.html> so you can stay current with post-life events. Specialists: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ : D'ya like to talk/dine/travel/sleep with the dead? D'ya need professional help to do so? Are you sure they're dead, or do mindcontrollers beam their voices/scents/touches into your sensory-cognitive system? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Miracle' Hi-Tech Crops Causing Widespread Brain Impairment - report says high-yielding rice and wheat varieties that brought about the much-heral- ded "Green Revolution" are among a range of environmental factors under- mining human intelligence. http://www.sightings.com/general/mir.htm # NEW ARSENAL FOR FOOD PROTECTION. Scientists are developing new processing methods to minimize contamination of our food & keep the risk of foodborne disease low. But will consumers accept these new processes when they emerge? http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=32521 : Is your brain/body/spirit impaired by what you eat/drink/smoke/think/grow? Is y'r IQ more affected by your ingestion/acculturation/agriculture/implant? # Computerized Map Of Latin America’s Threatened Birds may help save them from extinction. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000427075524.htm # Fargo - Plague of Bunnies: http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal042702.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Radio Therapy OKd for Heartburn http://www.sightings.com/general/rfs.htm # 9 of 10 Americans Embracing Alternative Therapies - and they're dying like flies. Fortunate to have the 'conventional-medicine' safety net as a backup: http://www.sightings.com/general/aalttherapies.htm # Giuliani has prostate cancer - Treatable condition may affect Senate race against first lady - infected by Clinton operatives? Have they no shame? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000427/ts/newyork_giuliani_2.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/725000/audio/_728241_devenport1545.ram : What's your favorite medical/cultural/political conspiracy? Is it gender- related? Why do more men than women have heartburn,prostate cancer,baldness, flatulence? Are all health problems/treatments conspiracy-based? Who plots? @ Why on earth would you want to shoot any one with a noisy, nasty old gun <http://www.recguns.com> when you could use something little less lethal? http://www.middlebury.edu/~jswan/martial.arts/pages/nonlethal.html Now kill yourself with kindness at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Male belly-dancers dazzle Istanbul. (BBC) Suddenly, Turkish men are chal- lenging women for their dominant position on the belly-dancing stage. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_726000/726807.stm # Vermont House OKs gay unions http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9743869 # Secret Bill-Signing: http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/Story/6633.html # BoyScout GayHating Is Legal: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9743863 # Mormon Scout Walkout? http://www.sltrib.com/04262000/nation_w/44434.htm # A finger on sexuality (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9709843 # Special Preference: http://www.nationalpost.com/home.asp?f=000426/270754 : Have you crossed any traditional gender barriers lately? Do the same bar- riers exist in all cultures you know of; or most; or a few; or only yours? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Ugandan cult grave. (BBC) More than 50 bodies are retrieved from a mass grave at a house near Kampala rented by a Doomsday cult leader. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_728000/728266.stm # Quiet cult's doomsday deaths: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746179 # Analysis: Why East Africa? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746180 # When devotion means death: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746181 # Mystery death of Sikh leader's daughter. An enquiry has been ordered in Punjab into the circumstance surrounding the death of the daughter of an influential Sikh leader. Accidental food poisoning?Why the fast cremation? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_728000/728177.stm : Has your cult/sect/religion had anyone killed lately? Is y'r belief system devoted to death/weaponry/violence? Do your deities/voices insist on blood?? @ Ever wonder what would happen if you could <http://www.askjesus.org/> Ask Jesus? More importantly, what if you could Jesus-ify a whole damn website? http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://www.memepool.com Now fill all your spiritual/religious needs at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researchers Say DNA Tests Can Link Former Slaves With African Kin http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/04/26/african.americanroots.ap/index.html # Fossils in the Blood. Are !Kung San people, sometimes called the Bushmen, progenitors of humanity? http://villagevoice.com/issues/0014/schoofs.shtml @ FAQ - Fossil Hominids: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/ @ Human Fossils? http://www.origins.org/orgs/probe/docs/hufossil.html @ Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D - gallery of modern primate relatives & fossil ancestors of humans. Skulls can be rotated 360 degrees, & are accompanied by descriptions. http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/~hagen/crania/ : Have you physically/mentally/culturally/spiritually evolved much lately? Where did you start? Where are you going? How will you get there? Quickly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ordinary people lose <http://www.lost-and-found.com/> ordinary stuff. But those astronomers <http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast07mar_1.htm> sometimes lose entire moons. See http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/ # Free-Energy Development? http://www.sightings.com/general/resistors.htm # NAB And NPR Join To Crush 'Micro Radio Threat' - govt media monopolist/ propagandists conspire: http://www.sightings.com/general/amicroradio.htm # Pix of Contrail, Condensation Alleged Dangerous/Ominous/Conspiratorial. Taste it and find out: http://www.sightings.com/general/chemida.htm # CIA Teachers: http://www.uwiretoday.com/columns042500008.html @ Artificial intelligence technology can be applied to many fields of life, from commerce <http://www.botspot.com/s-comm.htm>, to social simulations (telnet required) <telnet://debra.dgbt.doc.ca:3000/>, to making sex-crazed teenagers <http://www.frenzy.com/~crack/hornyfem/> look really pathetic. : What's your favorite technological conspiracy? Are all conspiracies arti- ficially intelligent? Are all AIs plotters? Have you plotted to 'lose' any- thing significant lately? Have you crushed the incompetent? Did AIs help? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The surface of the strange, forbidden planet was roughly textured and green, much like cottage cheese gets way after the date on the lid says it is all right to buy it." --Scott Davis Jones * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

lost in the digital funhouse

Thursday, April 27, 2000 09:54 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000427b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/26_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No tarlike macro-molecules were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ASK THE POPE: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616051338 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Buffs Dis Area 51 Pix. (SPACE.COM) In all the hoopla over the new Area 51 satellite images available on the Internet, those responsible for focusing the public's attention on the mystery base in the first place -- the UFO community -- have been largely ignored. Missing data or ho-hum? http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/area51_ufologists_000426.html # UFO researcher finds anomalies in Area 51 photos - just more government disinformation? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042601.html # Malin Space Systems Blasted For Withholding Mars Cydonia Photos - hiding Face on Mars details: http://www.sightings.com/general/mrs.htm # VIKING MARS LANDER PHOTO COLOR-ALTERING REVEALED - MIT Physicist Reveals Original Images Showed Blue Sky and Rocks With Greenish Patches. Sinister coverup of alien bases: http://www.sightings.com/general/color.htm : Have you manipulated/exploited/ignored any sensitive information lately? Is all public information a lie?Do sophisticated humans disregard everything we're told/shown/taught? Is anything NOT mindcontrol? How can you tell? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Group seeks objective UFO probe. Citing a "gulf" between conspiracy theor- ists & scientific UFO investigators, a UK group has formed a new organiza- tion to promote objective study of UFO & extraterrestrial (ET) phenomenon. "Code of practice" -- http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042501.html # 1ST DETAILED IMAGES OF EARLY UNIVERSE - detailed snapshot reveals an underlying cosmic geometry & structures that predate the oldest stars and galaxies. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/04/26/earlyuniverse.ap/ @ http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~boomerang/press_images/cmbfacts/cmbfacts.html : How much funding d'ya need for y'r probes of alleged reality? What aspects of alleged reality have you probed so far? What are the results? Do plotters impede your probes, divert your funding, ridicule your efforts, cut you off? # ONR Looks To Human Visual System To Improve SatPix. An advanced neural net scheme to increase levels of detail captured in Landsat satellite images has been developed. Reveals the composition of info contained in a single pixel: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000427072619.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tarlike Macro-Molecules Detected In "Stardust'" The first in-situ chemical analysis of interstellar dust particles produces a puzzling result: These cosmic particles consist mostly of 3-dimensionally cross-linked organic macro-molecules, so-called polymeric-heterocyclic-aromates. Life in the vacuum? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000427072933.htm @ Structure and Evolution of the Universe: http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/ # Astronomy as an Art Form - the universe is stunningly beautiful, eh? http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/CloserLook/wnt000424_hubble_feature.html # Lightning May be Key to Predicting Tornadoes. Climatologists think they're onto something. Not blowhards: http://www.cosmiverse.com/space042603.html @ http://apamac.ch.adfa.oz.au/OzChemNet/ChemDept/molecules/bucky/bucky.html : Have you found any living/self-organizing/energetic/evolving structures in the universe lately? Are they all around us? Do they bite? Are all dynamic structures parasitic/beautiful/deadly? Are you? What/who do you feed on?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Workshop, Worship Celebrate Goddesses.(U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Twelve women sat in a darkened circle, chanting of their womanly strength, power and sexuality in a goddess-worship ritual influenced by Pagan and Wiccan beliefs. Exciting study of goddess-based spirituality - "everyone was really involved." http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000427/university-24 # Brazil church apology said lacking - Indians reluctant to forgive: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566028467-8f8 # Iran leader endorses media crackdown - anti-Islamic deviants: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566028981-0b8 # Maryland Slaves Turned to African Spirits to Survive Servitude: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/webex/webex032300-crystals.shtml # Tammy Faye Makes Up With Past. More faces than Jekyll & Hyde. And longer eyelashes. http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat,fyi/37746bb0.426,.html : Have you explored your spirituality/sexuality/hyperreality lately? Do you regularly probe yourself or others? D'ya apologize for probing others? D'ya torment/exploit/purge/enslave folk with differing interior/exterior aspects? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FEMALE HORMONES HELP MALE MICE RECOVER FROM TRAUMA. Research in mice suggests that the female hormone estrogen may boost the immune systems of men who suffer heavy blood loss after an injury. Hit me again: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=32063&src=n45 # 'Master cell' research spurs debate - "Is it more ethical for a woman to donate unused embryos that will never become human beings, or to let them be tossed away as so much garbage when they could help save thousands of lives?" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566028704-77a : What's your favorite trauma? D'ya exploit trauma for political/scientific/ economic/religious/entertainment ends? What will you do to limit/promote/use trauma? Have you constructed/exploited/ignored the ethics of trauma lately? # Obesity Gene Causes Cancer of Fat Tissues - are we engineered for self- destruction? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000427074834.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EUROPE ADDS IMPOTENCE WARNING ON CIGS. The European Union and Canada are putting warnings on cigarette labels telling men that smoking can affect their sexual function. Guess what is the graphic for the health warning? http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=32221&src=n45 # Thailand bans smoking on TV. (BBC) Thailand has banned smoking scenes on TV in an effort to prevent young people picking up the habit. Good luck: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_725000/725816.stm # Tobacco Payment Cuts Worry States.(AP) State governments fearful of losing billions in tobacco settlement money are scurrying to find ways to keep the cash coming in: http://biz.yahoo.com/apf/000426/tobacco_pa_1.html # Police clampdown in Zimbabwe - tobacco plantations still occupied: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_727000/727830.stm : Who are your favorite druglords? What social movements have they crushed/ exploited/financed in their efforts to retain power/wealth/lethality? Which govt actions seriously impede druglords? Have druglords bought y'r govt yet? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head kept saying, 'Relax... you're not the first doctor who's ever slept with one of his patients,' but another kept reminding me, 'Howard, you're a veterinarian.'" --Dick Wilson * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

naked in space but I don't care

Thursday, April 27, 2000 08:12 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000427a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/26_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No lunar workers were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Kablooie! http://www.earthfiles.com/img/AprilChandraX-ray.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Killers hired psychic to cleanse homes after murder. ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) - Convicted killers Paul Bernardo and his former wife Karla Homolka enlisted a psychic to cleanse their home of evil spirits after they heard loud banging noises and voices calling out to them in the night.The couple believed the sounds came from the basement of their home, where they dis- membered the body of one of their schoolgirl victims. Demons, begone! http://news.excite.ca/news/ap/000427/03/homolka-psychic,1stwritethru # Ingo Swann Sees Naked Men On The Moon. Naked male workers working under bright lights on the moon, tall buildings, exotic machinery, and strange vehicles leaving tracks in the lunar dust - all this and much more was seen by Ingo Swann, the man most responsible for the phenomenon known as remote viewing. http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/200004270001.cfm : Have you seen/heard/felt/smelt/tasted/intuited any spirits/nudes/aliens/me lately? Have you cleansed your mind/premises/universe of the phenomena? Have you told anyone of what you sensed? Do you sense such a presence right now? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Heyerdahl to Explore Sicily 'Pyramid.' OSLO (Reuters) Explorer Thor Heyer- dahl plans to study a giant pyramid-shaped structure in Sicily that he sez may be thousands of years old, built for sun worship. "Incredibly exciting structure" http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000425/sc/life_heyerdahl_1.html # Archaeologists should resist new excavations at Pompeii - blasphemous: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timopnedt01001.html?1996766 # Time Traveller Dies in Ireland. The mystery woman was rushed to St. Mary's hospital where x-rays revealed an amazing assortment of computer chips and switches attached to her brain.The next day, the mystery woman died of her injuries.An autopsy revealed that many of the chips had Chinese characters on them and were of unknown origin. http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0112.html : Have you uncovered/explored/engineered/exploited (m)any ancient mysteries lately? Do the mysteries indicate contamination from past/present/future/ET cultures? Are the voices in your head caused by memes/demons/chips/aliens? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Toxic Tap Water. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) The Argentine city of Bahia Blanca has warned its 420,000 residents to avoid using tap water because it says it is laced with toxic bacteria that cause skin irritation and possibly neurological damage. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000426/07/odd-water # Infectious diseases get stronger - "they're winning" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566043578-a6e # TB OUTBREAK REPORTED IN TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY - Baltimore, NYC: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=32182&src=n47 # Australia faces plague of locusts- disaster on Biblical scale- punishment? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_727000/727673.stm :Have you been plagued by a bacterium/virus/locust/idea lately? What's your favorite plague? Are plagues caused by nature, humans, aliens, deities, all the above? Have you designed/constructed/promoted any plagues lately? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Syria: Nuclear powers aid Israel - Western-Jewish plot vs Arabs: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566031280-193 # Putin seen deploying nuke sub to counter U.S. in Gulf. Boom. http://www.worldtribune.com/Archive-2000/eu-russia-04-26.html # Missile shield could cost $60 bln - and it won't work. Bother. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566024245-b03 # Weather supercomputer unveiled - costs less than a major movie: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566025438-d92 # Breeding MiAs- What really happened to America's missing soldiers. Missing in Action (MiA) American soldiers from the Vietnam war are alive and well and taking part in a breeding for intelligence project operated by an Ame- rican intelligence organization. http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0106.html : What's your favorite military conspiracy? Is it expensive/effective/annoy- ing? D'ya promote paranoia to justify public funding of your conspiracy, or are your corporate/church/kleptocrat sponsors happy to keep you occupied?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Red Hat Open To Backdoor Penetration: http://www.msnbc.com/news/399125.asp # Poking Holes In Linux. A hole found in Red Hat Linux has raised fears over the security of open-source software, given that the code is wide open for all to see. http://thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14491,00.html # EXPLOIT Could Expose Browser Data. A newly discovered vulnerability in Netscape Navigator 4.x could allow a Webmaster to view a user's bookmark or cache file. http://zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2553337,00.html # Korea Hit By Chernobyl Computer Virus. The so-called Chernobyl computer virus struck South Korea on Wednesday, wiping out hard disks at hundreds of firms. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000426/tc/korea_virus_1.html # The Spy Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0101.html : Have you designed/implemented/exploited/exposed any security holes lately? Do you penetrate security personally, or send a virus/bot/worm to do it for you? Is security a fantasy? Are security fears promoted by systems leeches? # Kidnapped UK Computer Expert Found Dead In New Jersey Swamp: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_727000/727799.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Massacre video shocks parents. Sale of video showing graphic scenes of the Columbine massacre set to music causes outrage among victims' families. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_727000/727599.stm # Also - One year after Columbine - still grist for the media mills: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_719000/719948.stm # In pictures: Columbine remembers - hey, look at all the kewl blood: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_721000/721242.stm # Controlling America's gun culture - more fodder for political cannon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_407000/407576.stm @ Links - Columbine High School: http://www.columbine.net/ @ Spirit of Columbine Tribute centre: http://www.spiritofcolumbine.org/ @ Centre to prevent handgun violence: http://www.handguncontrol.org/ @ School violence http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=98030XXXXX @ National Rifle Association of America: http://www.nra.org/ @ Hope Columbine - survivors website: http://www.hopecolumbine.org/ : Have you massacred anyone lately? Have you used mindcontrol techniques to provoke a massacre? Have you exploited any hot massacres? Do you work in the burgeoning massacre-consulting industry? Are you planning future massacres? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Problems seldom exist at the level at which they are expressed" -K.Anderson * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...